The Dickinson press., 1887-08-06
THE PORTER's LITTLE GAME.
Not Content with Ordinary Robbery He
Bunkoed tho Passengers.

"Ihere is one sleeping car porter in this
country who'll not die poor, il thrift and
smartness count for anything" said gentle
man who has just returned from trip to
California. "Soon after we left Omaha the
porter of our car began to talk baseball and
to let us all know that lie was baseball
crank. He grew rather familiar, too, consid.
cring his station, but nobody objected, for it
is always best on cross country trip to keep
OH the good side of the porter. Among the
passengers We're several gentlemen who take
a little interest in baseball, and So along in
the afternoon, when the porter told about the
sport some passengers had had the week be-
fore, and suggested that jus to kill time we
initiate their example. the gemmen maxim
up n baseball pool at IS guess dc gelnmen
G'cssin' clostist to dc way de TO league games
comes out to take de pot there were seven
responses After the money had been paid
into the hands of one who was selected to act
aiS',ks!,older, u and the subscribers had written
ont their gucsseS and signed their names to
them, the porter humbly asked permission to
come i'll.
Though we all thought the chap was dis
playing considerable freshness, so long rs he
had suggested the scheme, in which we had
begun to take a good denl of interest there
NtS iio ohS W oDJSSI. 90 porter Dut
his IS and filed his guess with the stakeholder,
The next day we got paper at Cheyenne,
and you can imagine how surprised we were
when we discovered that only one man in the
party had named the four winners, and that
man the porter The way the fellow grinned
when he put the $40 away in his pocket made
me feel suspicious, and so, later on, when
another pool OF the same kind was proposed,
decided to stay out and keep an eye on the
porter. About $ o'clock the train stopped at
little station, and saw the porter making
break for the telegraph office. When he
came out he had a message, which he was
reading eagerly. He sat down in the smol,.
ing car and scribbled something OH piece OF
paper, carefully consulting his message as lss
did so, and then walked back to the Sleeping
car, remarliing that he'd give the gemmen
chance to git pat of de stuff back and de.
posted with the stakeholder a five dollar bill
and the slip of paper I'd seen him writing on
i'll the smoking car.
"Hnving found out what his game was
took the stakeholder one side and said to him:
This darky is bunkoingus 1t is now after3
O'clock In New York and Boston it is after
5. The games have been played. Wehaven't
been thinking of that, but this darky has.
lie Just received message telling him which
clubs won, and he has named those clubs here.
and expects to take our money Just us he did
yesterday
$50 the stakeholder and took out all the
guesses, changed them all to read the same
clubs that the porter had named. and put them
back. Then we posted the other fellows.
Next day when the returns were opened and
it was found that each g,lesser had named
the four winners, it was worth five times
s. apiece to us to see the expressions which
chased each each other up and down TINT
sErewd darky' face e"-Chcngo Herald.